World-famous café slates "Ukrainian Night" (04/23/06)

World-famous café slates "Ukrainian Night"

NEW YORK - For the first time in its 29-year history as a world-famous performance venue in New York City's West Village, the Cornelia Street Café will present a "Ukrainian Night," on Saturday, April 29, at 6-11 p.m. The entire evening will showcase Ukrainian-related films, poetry, music and fiction in English and Ukrainian.

Irene Zabytko, fiction award-winning author of "The Sky Unwashed" and "When Luba Leaves Home," and Alexander Motyl, author of "Whiskey Priest" and professor at Rutgers University, will host the evening.

Filmmaker Damian Kolodiy will show excerpts of his documentary, "The Orange Chronicles," highlighting the exciting events of the Orange Revolution. A special feature presentation of the film short, Ihor Strembitsky's "Wayfarers" (from Ukraine with English subtitles), winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, will also be screened. Yuri Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University will introduce the film.

The musical portion of the program will be provided by Andriy Milavsky and Halyna Remez of the Cheres musical ensemble, who will play Carpathian Hutsul music. Readings by Shevchenko Scientific Society resident poet Vasyl Makhno and the hosts, Prof. Motyl and Ms. Zabytko, will also be featured throughout the evening.

The first two-hour set will start at 6 p.m., the second at 8:45 p.m. Admission is $10 per set, which includes one house drink. CDs and books will be available for purchase. The café is located at 29 Cornelia St. For more information log on to www.corneliastreetcafe.com or e-mail [email protected].

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The Cornelia Street Café is an award-winning restaurant and New York City landmark that also houses a famous performance space in the downstairs section where the tradition of theater, performance, music and poetry is alive and well. The café has presented an enormous variety of artists, from singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega to poet-senator Eugene McCarthy, from members of Monty Python to the members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. It has also offered a performance home to the Songwriters Exchange, the Writers Room, the Writers Studio, the Greek-American Writers Association, the Italian-American Writers Association, the New Works Project/Theater and many others.

The Cornelia Street Café is presenting the inaugural "Ukrainian Night" as two separate sets instead of the usual one set. As its website says, "once is not enough."

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